The following remarks were delivered at a 12:15 p.m. press conference
announcing the election of E. Gordon Gee as seventeenth president of Brown
University

As Chancellor, I had the honor, just a few hours ago, to preside over a
special meeting of the Corporation, which discharged its responsibility to
elect University presidents in accordance with The Brown University Charter
dated 1764.

I am pleased to announce that, by a unanimous vote, the Corporation has
named E. Gordon Gee, currently president of The Ohio State University, to be
the seventeenth president of Brown University, succeeding Dr. Vartan Gregorian.
Dr. Gee has accepted the appointment and will officially begin his duties as
president on January 1, 1998.

As a participant in the selection process, I am convinced that Brown has
found a creative and thoughtful leader. Dr. Gee is a respected and articulate
spokesperson for higher education and has the depth and broad spectrum of
presidential experience to meet the challenges of the 21st century. He is
dedicated to academic excellence and to ensuring that research enterprises will
flourish at our nation's institutions of higher education.

As information about Dr. Gee's background is readily available to you this
morning, I will not elaborate, except to say that he comes to us with personal
experience in the Ivy League. He received both a law degree and a doctorate in
education from our sister institution, Columbia University.

It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you the man who will become the
seventeenth president of Brown University, E. Gordon Gee.